Pharmacy

The pharmacy departments at York and Scarborough Hospitals
employ over 150 staff providing comprehensive services and support to patients,
wards, clinics and departments within the Trust, as well as hospices and
several community hospitals and units in the locality.

Working with other disciplines, the team is comprised of
pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and clerical staff who
all play an essential role in service delivery.

The aim of the pharmacy service is to provide the right medicine
to the right patient at the right time and to ensure the patient gets the best
out of their medicines.

Please bring your medicines into hospital with you on
admission. This will enable our pharmacy team to carry out a full review
of your medicines during your stay.

If you have any questions about your medicines please inform
a member of the ward staff that you would like to speak to a member of the
pharmacy team about your medicines.

Services are provided at:

York Hospital

Scarborough General Hospital

Location

York Hospital Pharmacy Department and Healthcare at Home
Pharmacy can both be found via the main entrance on the ground floor.

Scarborough Pharmacy Department can be found via the south
entrance on the first floor.

Services

The services provided by the pharmacies at both York and
Scarborough include:

Dispensing medicines for in-patients, out-patients and on
discharge. The out-patient dispensing service at York is provided by our
partner Healthcare at Home.

Ward based Clinical Pharmacy service - pharmacists and
medicines management pharmacy technicians and assistants - work as part of the
multi-disciplinary team to ensure that patients get the best out of their
medicines by ensuring prescribing is safe, effective and economic. Several
pharmacists attend consultant ward rounds to ensure the medical teams receive
specialist pharmaceutical advice.

Procurement and distribution of medicines - these teams
ensure that medicines are available and fit for use. They work closely with
local and national agencies to ensure the Trust gets best value for its
expenditure on medicines.

Clinical trials - a team of pharmacy staff co-ordinates a
large number of studies in the Trust, ensuring trials are conducted and
dispensed according to best practice.

Additional services at York Hospital only, include:

Medicines Information - clinical practice is supported by
our medicines information service, who have online access to the latest
information to support clinicians with patient specific requests. This
team also maintains and develops the Trust formulary, prescribing guidelines
and protocols.

Anticoagulant Clinic - pharmacists are heavily involved in
the busy anticoagulant clinic, where patients have their warfarin dosed on the
basis of blood tests. This reduces greatly the burden on GPs and helps to
improve patient safely.

Contact us

For general enquiries, please contact:

York Hospital

01904 725736

Healthcare at Home Pharmacy
based at York Hospital

01904 721991

Scarborough Hospital

01723 342448

The aim of the pharmacy service is to provide the right medicine to the right patient at the right time and to ensure the patient gets the best out of their medicines.